Report: 1,500 arrested in Myanmar since 2022 in social media crackdown
The arrests were for writing or sharing anti-junta posts on Facebook and other social networks.
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The arrests were for writing or sharing anti-junta posts on Facebook and other social networks.
Residents had fled ahead of the attack and returned hours later to find the village destroyed.
A Thai town on the border to Myanmar has become a hotbed of resistance to the military junta in Yangon. Many believe this could be the last chance to save the country from dictatorship.
AFP Nearly half of the 87 journalists arrested by Myanmar’s junta in the five months since its staged a coup on Feb. 1 remain in detention, mostly on charges of defamation, prompting their colleagues, family members, and media watchdogs to call for their immediate release Thursday. According to reporting by RFA’s Myanmar Service, 31 reporters were released prior to June 30 when the junta declared a general amnesty and freed 2,300 prisoners from the country’s jails, including another 14 journalists. The Ayeyarwaddy Times’ Maubin correspondent Aung Mya Than—one of the 14...
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